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12 now published in book form TR, The New Nationalism (New York, 1910).
13 Many progressives Walter Johnson, William Allen White’s America (New York, 1947), 190; TR to KR, 27 Jan. 1915 (TRC).
14 He knew that they TR, Letters, 7.208, 199; Hechler, Insurgency, 202. La Follette had indeed engineered the League’s creation as a vehicle for himself. Margulies, “La Follette.”
15 La Follette begged La Follette to TR, 19 Jan. 1911, quoted in Pringle, TR, 549; TR, Letters, 7.163, 181. For an eloquent summary of TR’s political quandary at the end of 1911, see Harbaugh, TR, 372–73.
16 La Follette wanted Robert M. La Follette, La Follette’s Autobiography: A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences (Madison, Wis., 1913), 495–96.
17 the insurgents’ tendency to overreach “To put it baldly and briefly,” Owen Wister remarked of the referendum and the recall, “they express American impatience.” Wister, Roosevelt, 291.
18 “I think” TR, Letters, 7.201–2.
19 Roosevelt praised it Ibid., 7.206.
20 “a virtual adjunct” WHT quoted in Pringle, Taft, 588.
21 “to see radicalism” TR to the National Civic Foundation, 13 Jan. 1911, transcript in TRB; Morris, The Rise of TR, 123, 181–82; Hechler, Insurgency, 179–80.
22 He is a sort Baker, notebook K, 165–66 (RSB).
23 “If I go down” Davis, Released for Publication, 206.
24 other progressive writers See, e.g., TR to Benjamin B. Lindsay, in TR, Letters, 7.298. TR openly used the pages of The Outlook to help Lindsay fight for child labor law reform in Colorado.
25 “There is no fake” Hamilton W. Mabie, quoted in Garland, Companions on the Trail, 481.
26 They knew that TR, Letters, 7.311.
27 In January alone The Outlook, 11, 21, 28 Jan. 1910.
28 Roosevelt was pleased Bull, Safari, 166; Charles Scribner to TR, 21 Feb. 1911 (SCR). $28,620 in 1911 equals about $498,000 in contemporary (2010) dollars (Measuring Worth).
29 “It is a great” TR, Works, 6.458, 460.
30 It styled itself John Hays Hammond, The Autobiography of John Hays Hammond (New York, 1935), 615.
31 The word judicial Ibid., 613. Root had just been appointed a member of the Hague court of arbitration by WHT. He was also president of the Carnegie Endowment. For Root’s moderating influence on TR’s forceful foreign policy inclinations, see James R. Holmes, “Theodore Roosevelt and Elihu Root: International Lawmen,” World Affairs, 169.4 (Spring 2007).
32 “If we do not” Pringle, Taft, 2.39.
33 a word that the dictionary The 1910 edition of Webster’s Practical Dictionary helpfully defined righteous as “According with, or performing, that which is right.”
34 A case in point TR, Letters, 7.243.
35 “I most earnestly hope” Ibid., 7.243–44.
Chronological Note: TR’s mention of Japan as a possible belligerent was prompted by a current severe strain in U.S.-Japanese relations. The divisive issue was the perennial one of repressive measures directed against Orientals living, or seeking to live, in California, Oregon, and Washington. TR considered this exclusionary policy “necessary and proper,” at least in regard to immigration. He admired the Japanese for their martial qualities, but “they are utterly cold-blooded where their own interest is concerned.” They were more likely, he felt, to attack the Asian mainland before they ever took on the United States. But, as he had prophetically remarked two years before, the U.S. Navy must never allow its Pacific fleet to become vulnerable. “If the Japanese could sink it, as they did the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, they could land a quarter of a million men on our [west] coast and it would take us several years and cost us an enormous sum in men and money to dislodge them.” TR, Letters, 7.239; TR to E. Alexander Powell, ca. 28 Mar. 1909, quoted in Powell, Yonder Lies Adventure, 318.
36 “My brigade commanders” TR, Letters, 7.244.
37 Edith saw no prospect EKR (writing en route) to Cecil Spring Rice, 5 Apr. 1910 (CSR). She added, however, “I wish I could tell you of all the men who beg to follow him to fight Japan or Mexico or anyone!”
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